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  From: Nicholas Stock <nicks@lynx.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:50:03 +0930

Re: Idea

> On 07/21/97, at 09:09 PM, Justin Hawkins wrote: 
> 
> >Anyway. I had a bit of a crazy idea, someone with lots of diskspace and
> >bandwidth could archive stuff like the latest contrib RPMS, latest
> >Netscape versions, Debian packages, popular games and utilities etc etc
> >and bring their machine to each meeting.
> 
> along these lines - i have LOTS of bandwidth.... so if someone wants has a
> machine (maybe we could all provide a few bits and peices and get a machine
> together) we can then d/l everything - someone could just dial-in and do
> it.... then i'll bring it to each meeting....

Well, I could probably supply a machine, I have a guttless 486SX with 4MB doing nothing at the mo. It would be able to run linux and sever out files (and not much else...) The only thing is that I don't have much in the way of HDD space. I could probably spare a couple of 100MB drives but even with a compact linux install we would still only have about 150MB free for files.

Just a thought!

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Nicholas Stock
Cybernet Systems
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